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Groundwork Cheshire provides FREE government funded resource efficiency audits and corporate responsibility reviews to businesses across Cheshire to help them cut their operating costs, operate more efficiently, and reduce their carbon emissions.

For more information on the resource efficiency audit and corporate responsibility review services offered by Groundwork Cheshire please read the information below.

In addition to this service Groundwork Cheshire also provides a free health and safety gap analysis service to Cheshire businesses, offering confidential, expert advice and support to help firms comply with all their legal requirements.

For more information on Groundwork’s health and safety gap analysis service, please click here

Our specialist team works with businesses across Cheshire to help identify key savings whilst reducing your carbon footprint and other negative impacts on the environment.

We achieve this by conducting a FREE resource efficiency audit of your day to day business operations to highlight ways to manage systems in the most cost efficient manner and reduce the amount of waste and C02 produced.

We also carry out corporate responsibility reviews for businesses to ensure that your company is taking advantage of the benefits from developing high quality environmental policies and standards, whilst also effectively managing relations with employees and the local community to achieve excellent levels of corporate responsibility.

Our specialists also help businesses across Cheshire to keep ahead of the latest environmental and health & safety legislation to make sure they are fully compliant with all the latest regulations.

All of our specialists have vast experience in the environmental and energy management sectors, working for some of the UK’s biggest corporate organisations, energy providers, and public sector bodies.

This wealth of experience enables them to find opportunities for delivering improvements that could increase sales of your business, whilst reducing the cost base and lower your company’s operational risks.

Opportunities we will seek to identify include:

1. Cost savings that can be achieved through improved resource efficiency.

This could include energy saving opportunities, waste and water reduction projects or packaging minimisation. To date we have identified more than £10million of savings in local companies.

2. Access to new supply chains and increased sales through the development of environmental policies and standards.

Customers are continually raising the level of performance that suppliers have to achieve in their management of environmental issues. We will discuss with your current arrangements, identify areas of weakness that you may currently have and what steps you can take to enhance your corporate image and reduce your business risks through developing policies and standards. By ensuring you have the correct environmental policies and standards in place, your business will be well positioned to target new customers and grow.

3. How to become a better ‘corporate citizen’.

Your Groundwork e3 advisor will discuss how your company can develop to ensure that it is an excellent employer and neighbour. Employee retention and motivation is critical for all businesses in today’s competitive labour market. A responsible reputation enhances your company's image so you can keep and attract good staff, that saves you on costs of recruitment and keeps your staff turnover down. If you're managing employee issues well you'll get more motivated, productive and loyal staff.

Being a Good neighbour will help you manage your relations with the local community and bring great benefits in terms of reputation, security, customers and employees. Your e3 advisor will discuss your own local circumstances, and what you business can do to enhance it local reputation.

Risks which we will review include:

1. Environmental legal compliance issues

Each year a host of new regulations covering a range of environmental topics are introduced, and that is on top of the regulations that are already in place. Your Groundwork e3 advisor will seek to identify any areas of weakness, and provide advice on how you can enhance your level of compliance.

2. Pollution

Many businesses store liquids, handle substances or carry out processes which produce emissions. If these processes are not managed correctly your business could cause pollution resulting in fines, clean up costs and loss of reputation.

Your Groundwork e3 advisor will seek to identify areas of risk within your business, and make recommendations on how you can minimise any risks.

At the end of your visit, you will be sent a brief report highlighting:

Opportunities for improvements leading to lower costs and increased sales.

Business risks, and practical steps you should consider for improving your management of these risks.

The visit and the report are confidential and this service is available free of charge to companies in Cheshire.

If your company is based outside of Cheshire, however is based in the North West visit www.enworks.com to find out about local support you can receive.

If your business is outside of the North West please speak to a Groundwork advisor who will advise you of the availability of support and any costs.

To arrange your free visit from one of our specialists contact us:

Telephone - 01606 723175

Email - cheshire@groundwork.org.uk

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